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The Country of the Blind and Other Stories

H. G. Wells

Book Overview: 

Country of the Blind is a story of how an ideology or religion can close your mind to the real world and even when you realize that you were mistaken, you want to see the true.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Was it pure hallucination? He knew he was slipping, and he battled for his sanity with the same silent energy he had formerly displayed against Pawkins. So persistent is mental habit, that he felt as if it were still a struggle with Pawkins. He was well versed in psychology. He knew that such visual illusions do come as a result of mental strain. But the point was, he did not only see the moth, he had heard it when it touched the edge of the lampshade, and afterwards when it hit against the wall, and he had felt it strike his face in the dark.

He looked at it. It was not at all dreamlike, but perfectly clear and solid-looking in the candle-light. He saw the hairy body, and the short feathery antennae, the jointed legs, even a place where the down was rubbed from the wing. He suddenly felt angry with himself for being afraid of a little insect.

His landlady had got the servant to sleep with her that night, because she was afraid. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Some really good stories, and some not so good. Did like the country of the blind, not overly long though it could have been made into a novel. There are hints of themes and ideas in his later and longer works.
Have to admit I prefer his longer works.

Despite being universally recognized as one of the founding fathers of modern science fiction, H.G. Wells' fame rides largely on just four books - The Time Machine, Island of Dr. Moreau, War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man - published within a period of just three years, (1895-1898).

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Country of the Blind is one of those "what if" stories that sci-fi is so great at. In this case the question is "what would you give up for love." The answer apparently is "not my eyes."

I. The Jilting of Jane 2⭐
II. The Cone 4⭐
III. The Stolen Bacillus 5⭐
IV. The Flowering of the Strange Orchid 4⭐
V. In the Avu Observatory 3.25⭐
VI. Æpyornis Island 4.5⭐
VII. The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes 4⭐
VIII. The Lord of the Dynamos 4.25⭐
IX. The Moth 4⭐
X. The Treasure in the Forest 4.25⭐
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In the summer of 1962 my mother went home for the first time since marrying Dad in 1947. My brother, Fin, and I went with her by boat from Duluth/Superior to Bremenhaven, Germany, then by train to Bremen, by DC3 to Copenhagen and by Caravelle to Oslo's Fornebu airport to be greated by her parents an

A slim little collection, quick and fun, done before I got tired of them. I've never read Wells before (I know! <>), and I was pleasantly surprised. There is a little bit of adjustment required (style so different from modern writing....), but once I settled in I thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

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"The Jilting of Jane" (1894) • An unrequited romance.

"The Cone" (1895) • A jealous ironworker seeks revenge on his wife’s lover.

"The Stolen Bacillus" (1894) • An Anarchist steals a bacteriologist’s vial with plans to use it for terrorism.

"The Flowering of the Strange Orchid" (1894) • An introverted

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